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the fresh fruit for administration as an emetic, mash 2-3, mac- 

 erate 15 minutes in 150-200 grams of water and filter. It 

 acts in a few minutes and its effect may be hastened by giving 

 tepid water or tickling the fauces. 



Botanical Description. — A shrub with straight, thorny 

 stem, leaves sessile, springing from the buds, occurring in 

 threes, obtusely lanceolate, entire, glabrous. Flowers solitary 

 or in pairs, very fragrant. Calyx gamosepalous with 10 tooth- 

 lets. Corolla twisted, arched, cleft in the middle, throat nude, 

 limb slashed in 5 large glabrous parts. Stamens 5. Fila- 

 ments short, inserted on corolla. Style 1. Stigma bifid. 

 Fruit inferior, about the size of a crab apple, crowned by the 

 remains of the calyx, smooth, yellow, fleshy, 1 -celled with 

 many seeds. 



Habitat. — On the coast of Luzon. Blooms in May. 



Ixora coccinea, L. (/. bandhuca, Roxb.) 



Nom. Vulg. — Sardan, Tag. 



Uses. — The handsome red flowers are used in decoction for 

 hemoptysis and catarrhal bronchitis. Both root and flower 

 are astringent and are given for dysentery. In Concan they 

 cook 2 "tolas" (13.60 grams) of the flowers in lard, to- 

 gether with coriander and " mesua ferrea," add a little candied 

 sugar and divide the mass into large pills to be given twice a 

 day. 



The fresh root in the form of an alcoholic tincture has been 

 recommended by Deb for dysentery, the dose 2-4 grams in an 

 appropriate potion. The tincture of the fresh plant is prepared 

 by macerating 126 grams of the fresh root 15 days in 473 

 grams alcohol. The plant has been used in intermittent fevers 

 and various skin diseases. 



Botanical Description. — A shrub cultivated in all gar- 

 dens, 6-8° high. Leaves oval, entire, glabrous. Flowers in 

 terminal umbels, white, pink or red. Corolla tubular with 



